Release v2.26.0

PennyWise 2.26.0 brings an animated owl to AI chat, voice dictation, spending period reviews, and a sweeping motion and typography refresh — plus three new banks, smarter smart rules, and a wave of parser and Arabic-language fixes.

What's New

• Added IFIC Bank Bangladesh SMS support
• Added Barq SMS support (Saudi Arabia)
• Added Mobily Pay SMS support (Saudi Arabia)
• Animated owl mascot in AI chat with live reactions
• Dictate chat messages with your mic, in any language
• Week, cycle and year spending reviews with a weekly recap and share card
• Ask 'What was this?' on any transaction to tag it as a loan, split, transfer or saving
• One-tap spending questions and month-over-month comparisons answered instantly in chat
• Review several transactions in a single chat message
• Loan overpayment can now flip the loan's direction
• Smart rules can set a transfer's from and to accounts
• Category picker now shows most-used first, with search and in-place creation
• ATM cash withdrawals can be sent straight to your Cash wallet
• Home warns you when automatic tracking is blocked
• Show how much each account contributes to a group
• Budget pace now has an in-app explanation
• Notification category picker gains an 'Only this one' option
• Select all visible rows at once in selection mode
• App icons shown in Track Other Apps; ongoing notifications skipped
• Teach PennyWise an unrecognised message by tapping it
• See and remove learned merchant categories in Settings
• Settings reorganised into a hub with explained pages
• Last working day of the month added as a budget cycle option
• Budget warnings, overspend and low-balance notifications
• Opt-in spending conscience that nudges you about your habits
• Notifications now lead with the amount, then the merchant — no bank name
• Expressive motion throughout: animated rows, goal arc, smooth tab transitions, bars that retarget in place, predictive back with a shrink preview
• Google Sans Flex (M3 Expressive) as the default typeface, with hero figures and tabular numbers
• Spending amounts shown in neutral ink; red now reserved for real problems
• Flexible top app bar with subtitle; bulk actions moved to a floating toolbar
• Faster first AI reply; chat history now auto-trims so it never fills up
• Fixed Google Pay PDF import — dates, payees and received-money rows now parse correctly
• Fixed Arabic text direction in chat, chart legends and section headers
• Fixed 'Between my accounts' pairing — the other leg is now matched or kept correctly
• Fixed transfer pairs being counted twice and moving the wrong account balances
• Fixed category splits being counted in spending totals and filter views
• Fixed AI chat falsely saying 'I added it' instead of updating in place
• Fixed SBI Card bill-due reminders being misread as transactions
• Fixed ICICI OTP messages that mention an amount being parsed as transactions
• Fixed City Union Bank UPI Autopay debits not being read
• Fixed Slice, Priorbank, PhonePe/HDFC wallet and future-debit notice parsing
• Fixed account merges being forgotten when a bank masks the number to two digits
• Fixed three-decimal currencies losing their last digit in goals, conversions and AI replies
• Fixed donut chart legend scrolling inside the analytics page
• Fixed last bar label overlapping the one before it in bar charts
• Re-enabled SMS access from onboarding or the Home card after a previous denial
• Completed and reviewed all Arabic translations
• Memory leak fixes, reduced RAM usage and smaller APK

Installation

Download the APK below and install it on your Android device.